tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post226825882865287287..comments2018-03-19T09:42:30.660-04:00Comments on Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: Christianity and the Roman Empire – Part II The First Century (Continued)Mike Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02072553719998549925noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-38612881278496611752012-04-30T18:38:35.715-04:002012-04-30T18:38:35.715-04:00I have also observed a historical inaccuracy in wh...I have also observed a historical inaccuracy in what you say about Peter moving to Rome to eventually die there... This is according to Tradition, and this tradition is based on a forgery, the apocryphal writing &quot;The Acts of Peter&quot; (written around 150-200 A.D. = about 100 years after these events purportedly took place), according to which he leaves Jerusalem on a chase to intercept Simon the sorcerer (chap.4 ff). It&#39;s noteworthy to point out that even though rejected by the Roman Catholic Church as unreliable, its declarations about Peter were accepted as historical because of the need to justify the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome over the others by the death - therefore succession - of Peter as Pope in Rome. You can find a great number of shunned scholarly studies confirming this... but you must seek to find.jclequy@yahoo.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-20758609245339161582012-04-30T18:24:20.979-04:002012-04-30T18:24:20.979-04:00jcleguy,
Imagined is a bad use of this word in th...jcleguy,<br /><br />Imagined is a bad use of this word in this context if it implies delusion or hallucination. I think believed among your words is the best.Mike Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02072553719998549925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-5944807968539372082012-04-30T18:12:22.957-04:002012-04-30T18:12:22.957-04:00I understand now a major aspect of your position o...I understand now a major aspect of your position on the historicity of events related to Christianity: you have adopted a naturalistic viewpoint denying any form of supernatural. This is your intellectual choice. But to decide in their place, that what the followers of Jesus <i> imagined </i> a resurrection because they fell victims to a mass delusion/hallucination is not intellectually commendable, simply because you were not there to interview any of them to verify their claims, and you also refuse to listen with an open mind to their own testimonies as recorded in the NT. If you want to remain objective - and I am sure that this is your honest intent - then the wording to use is thus: &quot;his followers <b>believed / were certain / claimed</b> that they saw Jesus alive after the crucifiction&quot;. A scientific approach is to leave the door open to scrutiny, discussion and re-evaluation, NOT keeping it shut.jclequy@yahoo.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-28060458425575887452012-04-29T07:40:14.771-04:002012-04-29T07:40:14.771-04:00How do you consider the existence of christian peo...How do you consider the existence of christian people in Rome as Act of Apostles wrote under Claudian Empire, around 40 A.D.? Is it possible to know as community or simply a fellow of Christ?<br /><br />It&#39;s important to consider that from Cesarea to Rome by sea in a few days: this simply consideration how make possibile that the christian community arrive in the center of empire post 30 years? The existence of cross in Pozzuoli and Pompei, not datable precisely, rise the question when the christian adopt the cross as symbol and when they arrive in Italy as community and not simple as fellow.Simone82noreply@blogger.com